ReviewCancer cell2025
Engineered natural killer cells for cancer therapy.
Review in Cancer cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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36 citing papers in PubMed.
- Depletion of an immature cord blood NK subset reverses trogocytosis-driven CAR NK dysfunction.Cancer cell · 2026Article
- Barriers and Blueprints: Next-Generation Engineering Strategies for CAR-T Cell Therapy in Gastrointestinal Tumors.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- DNAM-1-Stimulated NK-92 Cells Exert Preferential Cytotoxic and Apoptosis-Associated Effects on Hormone-Independent Solid Tumor Cell Lines.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Accelerating the clinical translation of bioengineered anticancer therapeutics.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2026Article
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived NK Cells as an Off-the-Shelf Platform for Cancer Immunotherapy: Opportunities, Challenges, and Clinical Translation.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026Review
- iPSC-Derived iNK Progenitors Engraft and Generate NK Cells in Unconditioned and Autologous Immune Humanized Mice.Cell proliferation · 2026Article
- Circumventing Ewing sarcoma tumor microenvironment resistance by IL1RAP CAR-modified TGFβ1-imprinted natural killer cells in combination with IL-15 agonist and anti-GD2 antibody.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Article
- Advancing engineered nanoparticles for enhanced efficacy in cancer immunotherapy: optimizing nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Bispecific CAR T and CAR NK cells in dual-threat immunotherapy: opportunities and challenges.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Targeting intrinsic apoptosis rewires human NK cell persistence: NOXA as a dominant survival switch.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2026Article
- Reprogramming Antitumor Immunity: NK Cell Strategies to Navigate the Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Pumping up immunity: exercise flexes memory NK cell attack.Blood advances · 2026Article
- Vascular STING activation facilitates NK cell anti-tumor immunity in small cell lung cancer.Cancer cell · 2026Article
- SMAD7 drives natural killer cell antitumor activity through canonical TGF-β blockade and non-canonical transcriptional activation of STAT5A.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Article
- Immunotherapies for Breast Cancer: From Checkpoint Inhibition to Emerging Cellular Therapies.Cancers · 2026Review
- Integrating interferon gamma receptor pathways, antigenicity, and immune contexture as predictors of immunotherapeutic strategies for mucosal melanomas.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Article
- Beyond CAR-T and oncology: broadening chimeric antigen receptor technologies across cell types and diseases.Precision clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Beyond CRISPR: next-gen precision engineering of CAR-NK cells for enhanced persistence, trafficking, and tumor eradication.Cancer cell international · 2026Review
- CD80-Mediated T-Cell Suppression by Cancer Stem-like Cells in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Cells · 2026Article
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Abstract
Allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell immunotherapy is emerging as a promising and scalable, off-the-shelf platform for treating relapsed and refractory cancers. Early-phase clinical trials have demonstrated remarkable safety and encouraging therapeutic efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cells in heavily pretreated patients with lymphoid malignancies. Current efforts are expanding these therapies to solid tumors, with translational research increasingly leveraging precision gene editing to enhance effector function, persistence, and resistance to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. In this review, we summarize findings from early-phase clinical trials and discuss emerging synthetic biology and engineering approaches to improve NK cell potency. We also highlight advances in high-throughput discovery platforms that have identified actionable gene targets for NK cell reprogramming, offering a path to design multi-engineered CAR-NK cells to overcome the challenges of solid tumors. Together, these translational innovations define the trajectory of next-generation NK cell therapies and their integration into the broader cancer immunotherapy landscape.
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